Book Clubs Column by Julie Hale

Another ingenious mix of fact and fiction from one of America's most esteemed authors, this provocative novel is Roth's strongest offering in recent years. Taking liberties with history, he re-imagines the 1940s as a decade in which hero-pilot Charles A. Lindbergh beats out Franklin D. Roosevelt for president. Roth constructs the novel around Lindbergh's alleged anti-Semitism (according to...